The Tech Workers Building A.I. Are Scared of It, Too |
The Tech Workers Building A.I. Are Scared of It, Too
Ms. Andrias is a professor of constitutional law and labor law at Columbia Law School.
This month, U.K.-based workers at Google DeepMind, the company’s artificial intelligence research laboratory, decided to unionize. One of their motivations was concern that their employer was supplying A.I. tools to militaries.
In April, more than 600 Google employees sent a letter to the company’s chief executive, Sundar Pichai, demanding he refuse any Pentagon contract that would deploy Google’s A.I. for any classified work — to ensure it couldn’t be used for lethal autonomous weapons or mass surveillance, or in other “inhumane........